The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2

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John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell
The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
1
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802
36
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815
83
The New Imperial System 17831815
129
The Abolition of the Slave Trade
188
The Industrial Revolution and the Colonies 1783
195
AngloFrench Colonial Rivalry 18151848
241
Colonial Problems and Colonial Policy 18151837
275
International Colonial Rivalry
525
ii Great Britain and France 18481870
547
The Routes to the East 18151870
565
The Straits Settlements 18151863
592
The Exploration of Africa 17831870
615
British Enterprise in Tropical Africa 17831870
633
Colonial SelfGovernment 18521870
677
The Crown Colonies 18451870
705

The Emancipation of the Slaves 18071838
308
Colonial SelfGovernment 18381852
335
The Movement towards Free Trade 18201853
388
Problems of Settlement
415
CHAPTER PAGE
473
Free Trade and Commercial Expansion 18531870
751
Imperial Defence 18151870
806
International Law and the Growth of the Empire
842
Bibliography
883
Index
1005

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